NOW members have spoken loud and clear: they want Fiscal Commission Co-Chair Alan Simpson out — and NOW President Terry O’Neill is ready to send him home with 1,500 baby bottle tops. On Wednesday, Sept. 29, at the next meeting of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, O’Neill will hand deliver nearly 1,500 baby bottle tops from NOW members as part of its “Tits for an Ass” campaign calling for the removal of Alan Simpson.
Heather Boushey writes on Slate: “The Paycheck Fairness Act will ensure that a law already on the books–the Equal Pay Act of 1963–is adequately enforced. It gives women the right to know what their male colleagues earn so that they’ll also know whether…
Heather Boushey writes on Slate: “Even if you can make more than the cute guy you saw at the bar last weekend, you may not out-earn the colleague sitting in the next cubicle. And, alas, it’s the second comparison that really matters.”
Valerie Jarrett, chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls, writes in The Washington Post: “America first put an equal-pay law on the books in 1963, when women earned 59 cents for every dollar earned by a man. While this legislation was landmar…
Legal Momentum issued this report (PDF), which reveals: “There has been a large gender poverty gap in every year since the official poverty standard was created. In 2009, adult woman were 32 percent more likely to be poor than adult men, with a
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